Invited by the 13th Forum Internacional de Música de Orihuela Balázs Fülei will held a four-day piano masterclass, and then, as a final event of the music forum on April 6th he will give a concert with the Spanish clarinetist, José Luis Estellés.

This time, with his programme titled „In the Heart of Europe” involving the works of Central-European composers, Balázs Fülei will make his debut in Northern Europe. He will give a solo recital in Helsinki on April 25th, and another one on the next day in the White Hall of the Tallinn Philharmonic Society.

During his first months in Paris, finding a very enthusiastic audience in the salon of the Rotschild family was a determining experience for Chopin. The Rothschilds came to like him so much that they asked him to give piano lessons for their daughter, Charlotte.

On May 25th of 1854 Clara Schumann wrote a desperate entry in her diary: Liszt had sent her his new piece, the Sonata in B minor on that day and she thought it was simply horrible. On top of all that, she even had to thank Liszt for that terrible gift!

No composer has inspired as many film directors as Schubert. Excerpts from his works have been used as a score in more than a hundred films, e.g. in ’Sunshine’, in ’I Served the King of England’, in the recently premiered ’Phantom Thread’ or Stanley Kubrick's Oscar-winning ’Barry Lyndon’ where the film's atmosphere is largely determined by the second movement of Schubert's Piano Trio in E flat major.

„Dear Mme Müller,
I was very pleased indeed to have your letter of sympathy. You are right, the days when Austria was attacked without warning were also dreadful days for us. I think it is quite superfluous to write about this catastrophe – you have very concisely and eloquently put into words the main issue.”

Balázs Fülei has been touring Hungary with his informative programmes for years to bring music closer to children who very rarely or never have the opportunity to go to concerts.

The Bartók Radio will celebrate Béla Bartók’s birthday a day earlier, on March 24th inviting the interested guests with free programmes including a wide range of music genres.

Wooden columns covered with horsehair and faux marble veneer – allegedly, the legendarily good acoustics of the hall of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine is due to this mixture.

In 1998 the Christie’s auction house in London modified their previously used classification of art history eras and the indicative ’contemporary’ could only be attributed to works made after 1970.

In 1915, painfully missing the works of French composers from European stages, Debussy decided to revive characteristically French music.